Schools Abroad: Assault on Privilege

Britain's elite, privately financed
"public" schools have long been a recognized channel to top political
and social power. Just one of them, Eton College, numbers 19 Prime
Ministers among its alumninone of them from the Labor Party. Which
goes a long way toward explaining why Laborites look on such schools as
citadels of snobbery, undesirable anachronisms in an age of
egalitarianism. Prime Minister Harold Wilson (who attended Wirral
Grammar, a state school), in fact, has a commission hard at work on
plans that could drastically change the nature of the public schools.